Q1 is leadership plan quarter and, as you’re finishing up your business plans for next year, the next step is to take a look at your leadership gaps (both in yourself and your team) and build plans to fill them.
The best way to grow your company is to grow your leaders and, with that in mind, you guys are the superconductors to spark that growth.
Our team has been working on inviting leaders of certain areas to own plans for next year and beyond. We’re inviting members of our team to step up into new responsibilities, defining topics, giving them the task of building a plan and then vetting the plan as a leadership team. Trust is being built, workload is being distributed, growth potential is being built into our delivery. And we’re doing it in a way that allows perhaps a lack of experience to be protected by team input and involvement. We're also making sure the process is getting "buy-in" as plans develop to ensure we don’t get surprised by, either a plan that is way off track, or one running into a situation where we need to make decisions but the planning hasn’t been done yet. It's fun to watch your team step up, fill gaps and grow your company’s ability to execute and not have the heavy lifting be done a just a few people.
That only happens if you get ahead of it, build a plan and then execute the plan. That’s the focus for Q1. Are you thinking now about how your leaders can step up next year? What does that look like for you? If we don’t put plans in place now we will be forced to “work with what we’ve got” - this results in repeating this year the same as last year and then wondering why we can’t get over the hump.
Your company will grow where your leadership capacity can take it. Build into that capacity and watch your company grow.
Thanks for being a part of Evolve – Stay healthy and lead strong!
-Brad